Afterword

LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Afterword by Madison Julius Cawein. This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 7, 2025. ------ His output was thirty-six books and 1,500 poems. His writing presented Kentucky scenes in a language echoing Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats. He soon earned the nickname the "Keats of Kentucky". He was popular enough that, by 1900, he told the Louisville Courier-Journal that his income from publishing poetry in magazines amounted to about $100 a